There is an urgent need to learn from evidence and practice in HIV and AIDS responses. This need is to address some of the barriers to progress – particularly social barriers of stigma, marginalisation, poverty and inequity, which continue to be major obstacles to access to HIV prevention, treatment care and support.
Successful initiatives, and equally lessons from project failures, are rarely consolidated, reflected on and used to improve practice.
The Spark project was an effort to bring together the experiences of professionals around the world working with HIV and AIDS patients. In a series of lunchtime discussions, we tackled a range of issues that hinder the progress of HIV and AIDS treatment in the developing world.
The following are articles and discussions written from the Spark project.
- Background paper – Digital storytelling (640kb pdf)
- Learning from Patient Voices
- Digital stories: benefits and tensions
- Key issues to emerge
Evaluating social change communication
Addressing homophobia and the decriminalisation of sex work
